{"id":298420,"date":"2026-10-02T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298420\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:28:30","slug":"oscar-nominated-filmmaker-josh-fox-to-join-readingfilmfest-via-zoom-for-special-presentation-of-the-welcome-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298420\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Josh Fox to Join ReadingFilmFEST via Zoom for Special Presentation of The Welcome Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-69.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"516\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"images (69)\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-69.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"516\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-69.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"images (69)\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading, PA (The Hollywood Times) 10\/2\/26 \u2013 Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Josh Fox will be a special guest speaker via Zoom during the 2026 ReadingFilmFEST, taking place November 6\u20138 in Reading, Pennsylvania. The Hollywood Times is proud to be a media partner for this year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182180\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-70.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\"  \/>Fox\u2019s latest documentary, The Welcome Table, will be featured as a special presentation in partnership with ReadingFilmFEST and Bullfrog Films. The film, also available on HBO, follows climate migrants across six continents as they share deeply personal stories of losing their homes, security and stability while confronting the effects of a changing planet.<\/p>\n<p>Fox is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking 2010 documentary Gasland, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Fox also won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Although Fox will not be attending ReadingFilmFEST in person, his live virtual guest appearance will give festival audiences an opportunity to hear directly from the acclaimed filmmaker about The Welcome Table, its subjects and the issues that inspired the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 ReadingFilmFEST runs November 6\u20138 in Reading, Pennsylvania, bringing together independent filmmakers, audiences and special guests for a weekend devoted to storytelling and cinema.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182179\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aman-fox.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aman-fox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  \/>The Hollywood Times will be covering ReadingFilmFEST throughout the weekend as an official media partner.<\/p>\n<p>By Valerie Milano<br \/>The Hollywood Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading, PA (The Hollywood Times) 10\/2\/26 \u2013 Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Josh Fox will be a special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-298420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}